Director John A. Coleman
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY:
Alamo, Blackhawk, Diablo, and Lafayette, Town of Danville; portions of Pleasant Hill, San Ramon and Walnut Creek.Term expires: 12/31/2010
John A. Coleman was elected to the Board of Directors of the East Bay Municipal Utility District in 1990 and was re-elected in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006, representing Ward 2, which includes the communities of Alamo, Lafayette, and the Town of Danville, and portions of Pleasant Hill, San Ramon, and Walnut Creek. From 1996 to 2000, he served as President of EBMUD's Board of Directors.
Coleman is a past president of the board of the California Association of Sanitation Agencies and is past president of DERWA, the joint powers authority for recycled water service provided by EBMUD and the Dublin-San Ramon Services District. He currently chairs the Upper Mokelumne River Watershed Authority and the ACWA Infrastructure and Environment Subcommittee and is the past chair of the Freeport Regional Water Authority. He is vice-chair of ACWA’s Federal Affairs Committee and also serves on the boards of the Contra Costa Council, the WateReuse Association, and the East Bay Leadership Foundation. He serves on ABAG’s CALFED Task Force, the Advisory Council for California Forward, and chairs its Water and Land Use Subcommittee. He is a member of the National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition of the Association of California Water Agencies and serves on the executive committee of the Contra Costa Housing Trust Fund. Coleman served Governors Wilson and Davis as Deputy Director of External Affairs for the California Conservation Corps.
Long active in the community, Coleman is past president of the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, former board member of the National Association of Service and Conservation Corps, and former member of the California Biodiversity Council. An Eagle Scout, he is Scoutmaster of Troop 243 in Lafayette.Coleman holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a certificate in management from the University of the Pacific School of Business and Public Administration. He currently resides in Walnut Creek with his wife Lonna and two daughters and grows grapes for making wine.
E-mail: coleman@ebmud.com